In this Dec. 17, 2014 photo, a blue onion-shaped dome sits atop Samuel Colt's 19th century gun factory in Hartford, Conn., and is perhaps the best known symbol of a bygone era. As the decade-long push to make a national park out of the now-closed gun factory won approval in Washington, elected officials hailed the project as a way to boost one of Hartford's poorest neighborhoods and honor the revolver as a marvel of manufacturing. Notably absent was Colt's Manufacturing Co. _ the company that, somewhat uncomfortably, remains based today in a state still reeling from the Newtown shootings and now sporting some of the nation's strictest gun laws. (AP Photo/Michael Melia) Caption from AP
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